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Beidaihe autumns 1986 to 1990 report – species accounts

Beidaihe autumn bird migration report (1986-1990): species systematically treated Species systematically treated Geoff J. Carey, Daniel G. Duff, Martin D. Williams and Xu Weishu Around 345 species were recorded during the surveys.Summaries of the autumn records of La Touche and Hemmingsen…

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In October 2002, boxes of clothes began arriving in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, and they were all addressed to the same individual. The boxes of clothes were sent by mostly Taiwanese people (some also came from places…

Teacher Lin helps kids in Taiwan

From reading and her observations of people, she believed everyone had good in them. These kids aren’t bad. They need guidance and care. A key to improving their lives, she thought, was engaging them in constructive activities.

South China tiger rescue efforts too little, too late

Hunting and habitat destruction have brought these magnificent cats perilously close to extinction. Can the most threatened of the sub-species claw its way back? The scratch marks on the tree high in the mountains of Hunan province, south central China,…

Peninsula Hotel Hong Kong

The host of celebrities who have stayed at Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel include Noel Coward, the quintessential British wit who penned the song “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”.

Are Estonians Robbing Your Bank Account?

Mambo section of DocMartin and a related site that also runs Mambo were recently hacked. Main thing seems to be that some code (javascript) was inserted into template used to create each page – and this can apparently lead to…

Field Guide to the Birds of China

When I first headed to China in 1985, the only guide to the country’s birds was a (then) recently published volume – The Birds of China, by museum man Rudolphe Meyer de Schauensee, who reportedly figured he could learn all…

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NOT BB V

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